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Humor and Humanity
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Chapter I. ON THE NATURE OF HUMOR
Chapter II. THE EXPRESSION OF HUMOR: WORDS
Chapter III. THE EXPRESSION OF HUMOR: IDEAS
Chapter IV. THE HUMOR OF SITUATION
Chapter V. THE HUMOR OF CHARACTER
Chapter VI. COMIC VERSE: THE LIGHTER NOTES
Chapter VII. HUMOROUS POETRY: THE UNDERTONES
Chapter VIII. HUMOR AND CRAFTSMANSHIP
Chapter IX. HUMOR AND SUBLIMITY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Stephen Butler Leacock
An Introduction to the Study of Humor
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But there is perhaps a special reason why punsters, not humorists at large, should pay this penalty. The law often goes on the principle that an example must be made: military law starts from this idea: and in the courts of Kentucky, we are informed, it is a maxim of law that it is better that a hundred innocent men should be hanged rather than that one guilty one escape. So with the punsters. Common observation shows that his activity is a menace to society. It runs easily to a sort of mental degeneration in which the unhappy victim tries to make puns all the time, hears only sounds and not ideas, his mind as vacant as a bell waiting for its clapper. Many people hate the idea of drinking because of drunkards—and so do many hate puns because of punsters. Poetic justice therefore warns them in time.
As most people know, puns and the punning habit ran riot in Victorian England. Thomas Hood was merely the brightest star in a galaxy, or if one will, the blackest spot in a darkened sky.
